Brief Life History of Elizabeth
When Elizabeth Stanley was born in 1845, in United States, her father, Kennan Stanley, was 23 and her mother, Sarah Barrenton Barrentine, was 21. She lived in Holmes, Florida, United States in 1850.
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- Elizabeth Stanley in household of Niven Stanley, "United States Census, 1850"
- Legacy NFS Source: Elizabeth Stanly - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Elizabeth Stanly
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World Events (3)
1845
Florida is 27th state.
1845
When Florida was granted statehood on March 3, 1845, its population was 57, 921.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from any of various places called Stanley, including those in Yorkshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Durham, Gloucestershire, and Wiltshire, named with Old English stān ‘stone, rock’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’. This English name has been established in Ireland since the 13th century where it was Gaelicized as de Stainléigh.
English: possibly also a variant of Stoneley, a habitational name from Stoneley Green in Burland (Cheshire), Stoneleigh (Warwickshire), or Stonely in Kimbolton (Huntingdonshire), all named with Old English stān ‘stone, rock’ + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Americanized form of any of various like-sounding names in other languages, for example Polish Stanislawski , Greek Anastasiou , and Serbian Stojadinov (patronymic from the personal name Stojadin).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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